FMP PROPOSAL FORM

Project Proposal Form

PX88J/11
Level 3 BTEC Extended Diploma In Media Code

Learner Name: Darius Midcalf BTEC Registration

Number
Centre Name: Wiltshire College Centre Number: 66745
(Trowbridge)
Pathway: Film and Television Number of Words: 891
Signature: D.Midcalf Date: 09/03/2018

Aim: The aim is to create a 10-15 minute short film about a 3rd
year criminology student who needs to solve the recent
murders that have happened in the town.

Target Audience: The target audience for this short film would be teenagers
to young adults, but after I have conducted more research
(E.g. Psychographics), then I will know more clearly what
my target audiences is.

Project Title: ‘The Young Detective’

Aim of Project: The aim of this project will be to explore my directing and
script writing abilities. These are the skills I would like to
explore and grow the most. I have chosen these two
abilities because I love the script writing process and
coming up with ideas for short films. I have also chosen
directing because of how inventive and creative you can be
with certain shots and scenes.

This project will also build on all my work from the last 2
years of doing my TV and Film Extended Diploma. The
main units I will be building on will be:
1. Unit 1: Pre-Production
2. Unit 6: Critical Analysis
3. Unit 16: Film and Video Editing
4. Unit 22: Single Camera Techniques
5. Unit 24: Writing for Television and Video
6. Unit 26: Film Studies
Other units will play a part, but not as big as, these other
units.

Unit 1: Pre-Production – To make an effective FMP (Final

Major Project) I will need to carefully and comprehensively
plan this short film down to it’s tiniest detail.

Initial Ideas, Research and
Resources:
Unit 6: Critical Analysis – To plan the pre-production stage
carefully and comprehensively, throughout this entire
process I will need to critically analysis everything that I do
to make sure that this project does not go off track.
Unit 16: Film and Video Editing – This unit will become
more apparent when I go into my post-production stage.
Unit 22: Single Camera Techniques – This project will be a
single camera production. So, everything that I have learnt
in this unit will become very important when planning and
shooting my short film.
Unit 24: Writing for Television and Video – This unit along
with critical analysis will be important when script writing
because I will need to make sure that my script is the best
it can be with no/hardly any plot holes etc.
Unit 26: Film Studies – The film studies unit will come in
very handy when planning, writing and shooting this short
film (There are other processes that this will apply to also).
With the film studies unit, I can take what I have learnt for
research. I can analysis Tv series and Movies by analysing
the structuralism in them, I can see if they have certain
theories in them etc. I can then apply this to my own film if
needed.
The genre for my short film is going to be crime drama
because I feel like I can explore the themes of moving on
and how by not moving on with your life it can slowly start
to take over and become an obsession. Crime dramas
explore those sorts of themes of people feeling lost, people
doing stuff they wouldn’t normally do with more research I
can find out how to do that more effectively and apply it to
my own short film.
The research I will need to undertake would be analysing
Tv shows (NCIS), Movies (Sherlock Holmes), Video games
(Hidden Agenda), Novels (Murder on the Orient Express).
This type of research can give me a greater understand for
the genre and its codes and conventions. I will also be
looking at different genres of Tv and Film as well, just to
know how I can incorporate the things I love about those
movies/Tv shows into my short film. Other types of
research I will be undertaking are:
1. Survey’s
2. Focus groups
3. Physiography’s
4. Mosaic audiences
5. Codes and Conventions Research
6. BBFC (Age Calcification)
This is just some of the researching methods I shall be
undertaking for my short film.
Media, Media Forms,
Technologies and Time-scale:
Evaluation and Review:
For my short film, I shall be apart of all the stages of the
production process (Pre-Production, Production and Post
Production), I will also be apart of the distribution and
exhibition of this short film also.
Pre-Production: This process involves my initial planning
which is research, scripting, storyboarding, location
scouting etc.
Production: This is where I carry out the filming of my short
filming with my cast and crew. This can only be achieved
once my pre-production is all planned and ready to go.
Post-Production: Once filming’s all out of the way, I can
start to edit this short film using the adobe creative suite.
Distribution: Once the film is complete I will need an
audience to show this to, so I will need to design a
marketing campaign to get people to watch my film.
Exhibition: The final product/short film shall be uploaded to
YouTube for the world to see.
Under this you shall find a proposal sheet explaining the
time scale of this project: (Next page)
While I am making this short film, I shall be meeting up with
my tutor to discuss the development of my Idea’s and
reviewing it that way. However, I shall be reviewing my
work every couple of days just to make sure that I am on
the right track. At the end of this project I shall be
evaluating my work in a Viva Voce to my tutor.
 Proposed Schedule

Week No. Tasks

1 Proposal Idea’s and Research: Research the topic I want to make a short
05/03/18 film about.
2 Proposal Idea’s and Research: Start writing down idea’s for the
12/03/18 script/start script writing.
3 Proposal Idea’s and Research: Analysis first draft of script and keep
19/03/18 analysing every draft of the script that you do.
4 Proposal Idea’s and Research: Have a finished version of the script, have
26/03/18 a solid proposal ready to be presented on the Thursday.
5 Pre-Production: Location scouting, shot list, risk assessments, location
02/04/18 photos & recciess etc.
(Easter)
6 Pre-Production: Location scouting, shot list, risk assessments, location
09/04/18 photos & recciess etc.
(Easter)
7 Production: Filming
16/04/18
8 Production: Filming
23/04/18
9 Production/Post-Production: Editing and maybe another week of filming if
30/04/18 needed.

Week No. Tasks

10 Post-Production: Editing
07/05/2018
11 Post-Production: Editing and critically analysing the final edit.
14/05/2018
12 Re-Shoots, Post-Production and hand in: Re-shoots are there if needed,
21/05/2018 post productions there just to put the final pieces in place before the hand
in date.